About NMIT

Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT), Bengaluru, established in the year 2001 is a private, self-financing and autonomous Institution (Approved by the UGC). NMIT is ranked among the top 128 institutes of NIRF ranking in 2020. The institute is permanently affiliated to the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) Belagavi and is approved by the AICTE, New Delhi. “NMIT” is an unit of Nitte Education Trust (NET), Mangalore which is a pioneer in the field of education since 38 years and brings with it the expertise of 36 Institutions which include Nitte University and institutions of higher education like Engineering, Management, Medicine, Dental, Pharmacy, etc.

NMIT has been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC-UGC) with 'A+' Grade since May 2020 for a period of five years and also has different UG programs accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) under Tier-1 scheme. It is the only unaided private engineering college in Karnataka State selected by the Govt. of India for World Bank Funding under TEQIP Phase II- Subcomponent 1.1 in the year 2011. NMIT offers wide range of academic programs comprising of seven UG and eight PG programs in Engineering besides MBA and MCA. Ten Departments of NMIT offers doctoral programs of VTU and University of Mysore. Highly qualified and experienced faculty members comprising 106 PhD holders primarily from the IISc, IITs and NITs are on the rolls of NMIT. An additional 90 plus faculty members are pursuing PhD in different Research Centres of NMIT as well as in other Universities of Eminence.

Having a strong focus towards achieving excellence in education, research and promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship, NMIT has several sponsored research projects amounting to Rs. 10 Crores sanctioned by different reputed national funding agencies such as the DST, DIT, AICTE, DRDO Labs. To promote multidisciplinary research, NMIT has established seven State-of- the-art Centres of Excellence on Small Satellites, Robotics, Nanomaterials & MEMS, Design Engineering and Process Simulation, Cyber security Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace and IoT. Similarly, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre was established in the year 2010 and was funded with Rs. 45 lakhs by the Department of Science and Technology (NSTEDB), New Delhi and a Business Incubator was supported by the MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), Govt. of India. NMIT is recognised by ISRO for undertaking collaborative research on Space Technology and Satellite Development. NMIT has led a consortium that designed and built STUDSAT-1, a satellite of PICO category launched by ISRO's PSLV-C15 on 12 July 2010. This success is listed in the Limca Book of World Records. Moreover, the development of a working model of Pick & Place Robot has been kept as a permanent exhibit in Birla Science Center, Hyderabad. The institute has collaborations with North Dakota State University, USA, Indo- Korean Institute of Science & Technology, ISRO, Indian Institute of Science, NITK, Fluidyne and so on.